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Amazon backs 960MW X-energy nuclear plant at former Indiana coal site

Amazon and American Electric Power announced plans for a 960-megawatt nuclear facility near Terre Haute, Indiana, built on the site of a demolished coal plant. X-energy will supply 12 of its Xe-100 small modular reactors, AEP will operate the plant, and Amazon will be the first buyer of its power. The deal is three times larger than a similar agreement the two companies struck two years ago.

AI shopping agents from OpenAI and Meta are getting blocked by major websites

The rise of consumer AI agents like OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse—which can book flights, hotels or restaurants on a user's behalf—has led sites including Pizza Hut, Yelp and Amazon to block them outright. Muse reportedly reached 5 million downloads in its first month, and agentic web traffic tripled between August and September. Amazon has also sued Perplexity over its AI agents and is appealing a court loss, arguing the bots make it harder to distinguish human ad views from automated ones.

Amazon to fund 960MW X-energy nuclear plant on former Indiana coal site

Amazon, American Electric Power and X-energy announced plans to build a 960-megawatt nuclear facility using 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors at the site of a demolished coal plant near Terre Haute, Indiana. Amazon will be the first buyer of the plant's power, which AEP will operate, and it marks Amazon's second, and three-times-larger, commercial deal with X-energy following a 2022 agreement.

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